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title: ChartFormat.Shadow Property (Excel)
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- vbaxl10.chm861077
ms.prod: excel
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- Excel.ChartFormat.Shadow
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ms.date: 06/08/2017
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# ChartFormat.Shadow Property (Excel)

Returns a  **[ShadowFormat](shadowformat-object-excel.md)** object that contains shadow formatting properties for the chart element. Read-only.


## Syntax

 _expression_ . **Shadow**

 _expression_ A variable that represents a **ChartFormat** object.


## See also


#### Concepts


[ChartFormat Object](chartformat-object-excel.md)

